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George M George's Patient Story

“Where you have your surgery is so important. I needed a little more
help and they were there for me.”

George Murrell was very active, loved to walk, exercise, ride his stationary
bike, but hip pain restricted his movement. He was hunched over, in constant pain.

“I was always a walker and that was gone from me. I couldn’t
do it. I couldn’t get dressed. I needed help. Now I’m up doing
exercise 4:30 in the morning. It’s a pleasure to do those things
again.”

In December 2016, he had his left hip replaced at the Joint Replacement
Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway .

“I wish I had done it sooner. Now I can go where I want to go and
do what I want to do. I feel great. Recently I was walking with my wife
and she told me to slow down. I didn’t know I was walking so fast.
It’s a new beginning. I’m pain free and going back to things
I was normally doing – walking, riding the stationary bike.”

“Where you have your surgery is so important. I needed a little more
help and they were there for me.”

Prior to surgery…

I couldn’t live with the pain. I was taking a lot of pain medication.
I wouldn’t even go to church with my wife. I couldn’t walk
or stand up or sit down. Now I am going to go back to church and maybe
I’ll even start singing again.”

Before the surgery, I was in so much pain, but I was really afraid: afraid
of the operation and the recovery. I was thinking I would need to recover
in a nursing home because of my blindness and the operation. I even picked
out a home. They told me I didn’t need that. They had everything
I needed to recover and that I could recover at home and I did. ”